Blog Posts

(Read the press release online). That’s right, you heard it here first. Higher Ed Live will now broadcast through PlatformQ Education’s (PQE) Conduit webcasting platform. In an effort to better reach and engage our community, we’ve recently entered into a partnership with PQE that allows us to leverage PQE’s Conduit online engagement platform. Conduit will […]

You’ve probably never seen the words “listening,” “empathy,” or “trust building” listed anywhere on a job description or heard them in an annual review. They are the most valuable and needed skills in higher education, but they are also those we take most for granted. Listening, empathy, and trust are important because all of us […]

Policies and procedures tend to shape higher education institutional cultures disproportionately, shortchanging an emphasis on the student experience. Similarly, traditional approaches to transferring credits and physically moving between institutions place the responsibility of transferring on the student, not the institution. It’s time to flip the script. Learner Mobility is Reality 38% of college students, over […]

This article was originally found in mStoner’s monthly Intelligence newsletter. If you’re interested in receiving this type of content in your inbox, including information on mStoner’s latest research and webinars, sign up now — no form submission required! We’ve been around long enough to know that trends in design come and go. The process is cyclical. Novel ideas spread […]

About one year ago we took first steps toward the creation of the new Johns Hopkins enterprise-wide giving website. Our eight-year campaign was ending, and our five-year-old site was showing its age, so there was ample impetus for change. Almost 11 months later our sites — two, not one — launched. The road, unsurprisingly, wasn’t […]

With the new year underway, we reviewed the stats from last year on the Higher Ed Live Blog. We offer the top five most viewed blog posts from the year. Happy reading! Three Higher Ed Design Trends for 2018 Designers are always looking ahead to new innovations in aesthetics and process. Whether that change is […]

In 2015, Higher Ed Live started making all our episodes available for free via podcasts. Check out the Top Podcasts of 2017. Since launching, you’ve downloaded our podcast more than 172,758 times! Here are the top downloaded podcasts of 2018: Admissions Live What Accepted Students Wants On this episode, we sit down with three innovative, higher […]

Like our peer institutions in North America, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) relies heavily on social media to build our brand. Changes in social media use and a significant drop in organic reach on the traditional social media platforms have forced us to retool and approach our brand-building work differently. In the past year, we’ve been […]

Communications and marketing teams, you have a problem. Prospective students don’t trust you online. Here’s how you can fix it. According to a recent study from the Knight Foundation — the abundance of fake or deceptive content online has caused “almost half” of college student respondents to lack confidence in discerning real from fake news […]

Higher Ed Live is pleased to announce the call for new hosts is open! Applications are due February 1, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. EST / 5:00 p.m. PST. Hosting live episodes is fun, professionally rewarding, and helps you grow your network. Hosts receive a quarterly stipend and other perks throughout the year. Eligibility We’re looking […]

Three-days, nine sessions, and an all-star group of speakers.That’s a small portion of what you get when registering for mStoner’s Advanced Marketing for Higher Education Websites online conference. When? Noon to 4:00 p.m. EST / 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST daily from December 11, 2018 to December 13, 2018. How much? Cost to attend […]

There is one piece of research from the 2018 E-Expectations Trend Report about how digital engagement shapes the way high school juniors and seniors choose a college that is not surprising: They like stories about students similar to themselves. Popular Content for College Websites Content featuring students speaking about campus life or engaged in activities […]

There are two vital questions that must be answered when it comes to recruiting prospective students: How are you getting students to visit your campus? What are you doing to ensure your prospective students become enrolled students? We recently teamed up with our partners at Georgia College & State University (GCSU) in Milledgeville, Georgia (listen […]

I recently returned from the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference where the theme was “Global Goals: Rising to the Challenge”. Adopted by the world’s governments in September 2015, the UN’s 17 Global Goals (known as the Sustainable Development Goals) establish ambitious global targets to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure […]

The 2018 AMA Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education is right around the corner. Will BVK and mStoner see you in Orlando? This year mStoner and BVK, are teaming up and looking for a challenge. That’s right — they’re giving you 30 minutes to discuss and unpack your top-of-mind business issues with the best […]

At the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), our goal is to help underserved populations of students like adults—a group defined by the National Center for Education Statistics as postsecondary students aged 25 or older—complete their journeys through higher education. Aside from the obvious moral value of increasing access to higher education, enrolling and […]